Quotes About Toughness

Tough people last, tough times don't.

This is a touch game. There are times when you've got to play hurt when you've got to block out the pain.

A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. "This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says. Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.

What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality

A woman] will need to prize her tenderness and be able to display it at appropriate times in order to prevent toughness from gaining total authority and to avoid becoming a mirror image of those men who value power above life, and control over love.

Besides, what you need is a swift kick in the ass. If you want a hug, go see Ma.

You said that if I ever lost a finger, I'd cry like a baby. But I didn't. I cried like a man.

As a kid, you can only cry so much before you run out of tears and learn to get tough.

Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is filled with enemies.

He was a hard man, but what else would he be? He had stood in the shield wall, he had watched the Danes come to the attack, and he had lived. He was no youngster.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

I play the game and I understand what's going to happen; you get banged up. But you signed up for it.

It's a brutal game. It requires a certain type of person to play it. Once you make the decision to play it, that's your decision. I know what I signed up for. It allows me to provide for my family.

French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

They peck a man's asshole out, though God only knows why.

I shrugged, remembering the many swats I'd endured at my Aunt Gin's hands. She always assured me she'd really give me something to cry about if I wanted to protest.

That's a bad bruise." "I scarcely feel it." Indeed, she probably could have been smacked over the head with a log just then and would scarcely have noticed.

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.

The boy taught from infancy to be tough is emotionally doomed.

There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.